“My wife is going to kill me” Joe Scarborough, the conservative host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, was describing Barack Obama‘s new Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel‘s bedside manor this morning and shocked his fellow bobble heads by describing him as routinely flipping people off and saying “Fuck you.” Oops. No doubt the Bushies will delight in handing the commies at …
GRAND CAYMAN — President-elect Barack Obama met with several impressive new cabinet members today to discuss a plan of action to solve the many problems facing his new administration, the United States, and the world. The meeting was held on a private beach on Grand Cayman Island, which Obama noted was symbolic of the “sea change” that was coming. The …
• Ebony And Ivory Live Together In Perfect Harmony Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord, Why Don’t We? —Paul McCartney It strikes me as an unfortunate bit of necessary shorthand that Barack Obama has been thought of almost exclusively as a “black” man. Barack is biracial. He’s not the first “black president.” He’s the first “black and …
g Barack Obama has said from the beginning of this campaign that it is the people who must believe— not just in his ability to bring about change in Washington— but in theirs. He has couched these exhortations in what he calls the fierce urgency of NOW. It’s as rousing a call to the responsibilities of citizenship you’re likely to …
“The greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.” So says psychology professor Robert Altemeyer, who provided Wateregate whistle-blower John Dean with forty years of study on the authoritarian personality type that roughly 28 percent of Americans proudly call their modus operandi. John Dean: During the 2008 presidential campaign, …
In one of the more surreal moments of an already surreal campaign, John McCain got into the spirit of the holiday by appearing in an amazingly creepy “Underdog” costume, while standing next to someone else dressed as Underdog.
Yeah, people behind me were pretty cool about my arrow. (click it.) DENVER — There was no time for blogging today! as Dr. Zaius says, because the main man was in Denver, and a few of us got together to wish him well, Tuesday after next. Like so many in that crowd, I never layed eyes on Barack. The distance …
